Just for Fun: Do Basses/Brands have a Gender?

[squeakyd]

Right or wrong, sometimes inanimate items get gendered (e.g., New Beetles are "girl's cars", etc.). I think MusicMan basses are totally guy basses (edited for clarity!). Same for Peaveys and Gibsons, with possible exception of Tbirds. Fenders and Rickenbackers seem a bit more female.

 

[Russell L]

My Fender basses are definitely guys.

 

[4SG]

Thought never occurred to me. Because...

Gail Ann Dorsey plays MM

Tal Wilkenfeld plays Sadowsky

Suzi Quatro plays Gibsons

Nicole Fiorentino (Smashing Pumpkins) plays Reverend

Sara Lee plays G&L

etc.

 

[Axtman]

Yes. I have a G&L El Toro. "EL" is the Spanish masculine pronoun.

 

[Axtman]

Yes. Rick N. Backer is a man's name.

 

[Axtman]

Yes. It's a MusicMAN not a MusicWOMAN.

 

[squeakyd]

Yes. Rick N. Backer is a man's name.

Haha!

 

[dtripoli]

I've never considered any of my basses a gender. If you held a knife to my neck and demanded an answer, I'd say all my basses are male except the bass I refurbished for my daughter and put her name on the headstock.
Now when it comes to boats, females seem to be the dominant names and they are referred to as "her"

 

[JGbassman]

What an odd question, it never crossed my mind that certain basses are gender specific.

I guess in retrospect,I see all my basses as my bro's, maybe my wingman or partner. We hit the stage together, get a little crazy, and kill it.

If I had to choose what I felt was tailored more to a gender, I'd say short scale basses would be more for a smaller stature, where 35" and bigger more for the bigger peeps. Brands would have nothing to do with it.

Of course this holds as much water as does the thought of a gender based instrument in the first place.

 

[dreamadream99]

I don’t genderfy inanimate objects, not even boats or cars.

 

[BassAndReeds]

Stupid thread. You really need another hobby.

 

[sinewave]

Jazz basses are definitely girly. Why would one need a bridge pickup on a bass? Gay. Obviously the mighty Precision Bass is the solution. There are nice small scale ones like the Gibson SG bass.

 

[rashrader]

Take your anthropomorphisms elsewhere and leave my Basses out of it....

 

[CatchaCuda]

Apparently I shouldn't assume gender.

 

[jamro217]

Just for fun? I never realized fun could be so creepy.

 

[40Hz]

Dealing with entities that actually have a gender is enough of a task for me without assigning genders to things that don’t have any.

 

[micguy]

Female.

 

[Killed_by_Death]

la guitarra bajo
yes, it's female

(or is it guitarra baja?)

 

[AboutSweetSue]

There are 70 different genders in the bass world. The Fender Precision Bass is a non-binary intact super gendered rodeo bass guitar.

 

[_One//Man//Mutiny_]

Daisy rock surprises everybody by identifying as a boy